Older smokers can still stub out the chances of getting dementia by quitting cigarettes for good, a study has found. Research at the University College London found it's never too late to quit after ...

Men, older adults and smokers are all more prone to coronavirus infection due to their biology, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples of respiratory cells from ...

Older adults who smoke tobacco and have higher levels of cotinine, a biomarker that shows tobacco exposure, have higher chances of pre-frailty and frailty, a new study finds. Helping older adults ...

Older smokers are usually more set in their ways, but a dollar increase in cigarette prices makes them 20 percent more likely to quit, a new Drexel University study found. The study, published in ...

Quitting smoking – male hand crushing cigarette While past research has found that young smokers are more likely to attempt to quit smoking, findings regarding age and success of quitting is ...

Seniors who smoke are significantly more likely to develop forms of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease than those who don’t, or those who quit in the past, Dutch researchers say. There is a 50% increase ...

Quitting smoking benefits older individuals, yet few recent studies have described older smokers. The goal of this paper was to test a series of hypotheses about differences between smokers aged 50 ...

Nov 1 (Reuters) - New lung cancer screening guidelines issued by the American Cancer Society (ACS) on Wednesday call for annual testing with low‐dose computed tomography (CT) for anyone aged 50 to 80 ...

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY — Good news for older adults who decide to quit smoking—even after 60 years of age, quitting smoking for 5 years translates into a significant reduction in cardiovascular mortality ...